Ray Rice

Hope Solo has become the most important sports story of 2015. Solo is not, as many have claimed, the female Ray Rice or Ray Rice without the video. Despite her husband's assertion, she certainly isn't the victim of a witch-hunt. There is much to despise about what Solo is accused of doing in a family brawl last June. There is much to despise about her drunken, threatening words to the Kirkland, Wash., police when they responded. No matter how hard U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati has tried to wish the ugliness away, the ugliness doesn't go away. No matter how hard coach Jill Ellis and her players have tried to paint it as old news, it isn't old news as long as...

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Hope Solo has become the most important sports story of 2015.
Solo is not, as many have claimed, the female Ray Rice or Ray Rice without the video. Despite her husband's assertion, she certainly isn't the victim of a witch-hunt.
There is much to despise...

Hope Solo has become the most important sports story of 2015.
Solo is not, as many have claimed, the female Ray Rice or Ray Rice without the video. Despite her husband's assertion, she certainly isn't the victim of a witch-hunt.
There is much to despise...

To those who follow soccer, the news that nine high-ranking members of FIFA — the sport's world governing body — were accused of wrongdoing was akin to a report that the sun will continue to rise in the east.
Why is corruption rampant throughout the...

Marques Haynes, the Harlem Globetrotters star who many believe was the greatest dribbler in basketball history, died of natural causes Friday in Plano, Texas, the team announced. He was 89. The Globetrotters will dedicate their 90th anniversary tour in...

MAYS LANDING, N.J. — A judge on Thursday dismissed domestic violence charges against Ray Rice, who was caught by a surveillance camera knocking his then-fiancee unconscious in a hotel elevator last year.Judge Michael Donio signed the order after the...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Robert Kraft has repeatedly stood up for Roger Goodell, supporting the NFL commissioner's high salary, playing a key role in ending the 2011 lockout, even vouching for his friend amid missteps in the Ray Rice domestic violence...

Tom Brady and the Patriots probably didn't get what they deserved. They certainly got what they asked for.
Taking one step into the national argument over the NFL's punishment in Deflategate is the same as taking four steps into the middle of speeding...

ELIZABETH, N.J. — An NFL linebacker accused of distributing racy photos of a woman in violation of a revenge porn law can't enter a pretrial diversion program that would allow for any conviction to be wiped from his record, a judge ruled Wednesday....

It's always good to hear from the Hall of Famer and former UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun. On Tuesday, Calhoun reflected on one of his favorite people and players, Richard "Rip" Hamilton, who retired last week from the NBA after 14 seasons...

When Ray Rice left Baltimore one year ago this past weekend for a Valentine's outing with his then-fiancee, he could never have fathomed the seismic impact he was to set off with his actions.With a punch to Janay Palmer's face in an Atlantic City casino...

Alison Gordon became the first female beat writer in Major League Baseball when she began covering the Blue Jays for the Toronto Star in 1979. She was the first woman admitted to the Baseball Writers Association of America, and handled resistance in a...

PHOENIX — Roger Goodell tried to walk the difficult line between humility and authority in his annual pre-Super Bowl press conference on Friday. Given the NFL commissioner's robotic nature, it's not surprising that he tripped over that line a number of...

It doesn't matter if we want Deflategate. It doesn't matter if we don't want Deflategate.
We NEED Deflategate.
Whether the Patriots purposely took some of the air out of their footballs Sunday as they were taking all of the air out of the Indianapolis...

NEW YORK — The NFL failed to investigate the Ray Rice case properly, former FBI director Robert S. Mueller said in a report that also said he found no evidence the league received a video of the Ravens running back knocking out his fiancee in a casino...

Robert Mueller, the former FBI director looking into how the NFL handled the Ray Rice domestic abuse incident, says the league should have been more aggressive in its investigation before initially punishing Rice. There's a revelation. But he also found...

Congratulations, America. We seem to be moving beyond the need for the perfect victim. We no longer require a bruised and bloodied virginal innocent to make us believe that sexual assault and domestic violence occur at astounding rates in the U.S.
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Embattled former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice in an interview on Tuesday said he hopes to land with another NFL team because he "took full responsibility" for his one-punch knockout of his then-fiancée.
Rice, a three-time Pro...

Just when you thought NFL commissioner Roger Goodell couldn't look any worse after the whole Ray Rice affair, a neutral arbitrator has ruled against Goodell's indefinite suspension of Rice, saying that Goodell had no new evidence to suspend him...

BALTIMORE — Ray Rice is eligible to return to NFL play after an arbitrator decreed Friday that league Commissioner Roger Goodell improperly punished the former Baltimore Ravens running back twice for the same domestic violence offense.Former U.S. District...

Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov was suspended indefinitely by the NHL following his arrest early Monday on charges of domestic violence, the league said.Voynov, 24, will be paid during the suspension but will be barred from all club activities...